Arkadelphia, Arkansas – August 22, 2009
On one of our road trips from San Diego, back to Philly, we spotted this water tower in Arkansas. And yes, there is such a place…
This Day in History (September 9)
1993 PLO recognizes state of Israel
1990 Bush and Gorbachev meet in Helsinki and urge Iraq to leave Kuwait
1987 Gary Hart admits on "Nightline," to cheating on his wife
1983 Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2)
1982 Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight
1977 1st TRS-80 computer sold
1975 Viking 2 Mars probe launch
1971 1,000 convicts riot and seize Attica, New York prison
1971 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear on Dick Cavett Show (ABC-TV)
1971 John Lennon releases "Imagine" album
1968 1st U.S. Open, held as an "open" (Arthur Ashe-wins)
1967 1st successful Test flight of a Saturn V
1966 John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition
1965 Tibet is made an autonomous region of China
1957 "Diana" by Paul Anka reaches #1
1957 President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction
1956 Elvis Presley’s 1st appearance on Ed Sullivan’s Show
1951 1st broadcast of "Love of Life" on CBS-TV
1950 1st use of TV laugh track – Hank McCune
1942 Japanese planes drop incendiary bombs on Oregon
1945 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers
from a relay and taped into the log
1926 National Broadcasting Co (NBC) created by Radio Corporation of America
1912 J Verdrines becomes 1st to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph)
1908 Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va
1892 E E Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th Jupiter moon
1862 Lee splits his army and sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry
1850 California becomes 31st state
1850 Territories of New Mexico and Utah created
1839 John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph
1830 Charles Durant, 1st U.S. aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, New York City to Perth Amboy, NJ
1776 Continental Congress renames "United Colonies," "US"
1753 1st steam engine arrives in U.S. colonies
1675 New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians
1492 Columbus’ fleet sets sail west
Today’s Birthdays
1966 Adam Sandler, actor – comedian, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, SNL
1960 Hugh Grant, born in London, England, 4 Weddings and a Funeral, 9 Months
1958 Lita Ford, born in London, England, vocalist, Kiss Me Deadly, Runaways
1952 Angela Cartwright, England, Make Room for Daddy, Lost in Space
1951 Michael Keaton, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor, Gung Ho, Batman, Beetlejuice
1951 Tom Wopat, Loda Wisconsin, TV actor, Luke-Dukes of Hazzard
1946 Billy Preston, Texas, singer and pianist, 5th Beatle, David Brenner Show
1943 George Roger Waters, keyboardist, Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall
1941 Otis Redding, Dawson, Georgia, rock bassist, Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
1935 Topol, Tel Aviv Israel, actor, Fiddler on the Roof
1928 Julian E "Cannonball" Adderley, U.S., jazz musician, Black Messiah
1927 Elvin Jones, born Pontiac, Michigan, musician, jazz drummer, played hard bop, avant-garde jazz, post-bop,
member of John Coltrane quartet, appearing in A Love Supreme
1925 Cliff Robertson, La Jolla California, actor, Charly, spokesman for AT&T
1907 Pinky Tomlin, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, singer and actor, Tip-Waterfront
1899 Neil Hamilton, Lynn Massachusetts, actor, Commisioner Gordon-Batman
1890 Colonel Harland Sanders, Henryville, Indiana, colonel/CEO, Kentucky Fried Chicken
1850 Harishchandra, India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi
1828 Leo Tolstoy, Russia, novelist, War and Peace, Anna Karenina
1754 William Bligh, British sea captain of the Bounty
1737 Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomist
1585 Cardinal Richelieu, French Clergyman
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